>I don't know, and don't really want to know how much money i've got sunk into my acct, but it's a lot Oh you can know. It's a viewable page within the menu. I'll leave it to you to search up on where.

This is why on steam I don’t store my credit card information, nor on basically any other site that I can get away with it. Yeah it is a pain in the ass for the times I want to buy something, having to put it the card details every single time, but it’s worth my peace of mind if a breach happens. By this point I have memorized my card numbers so it’s not too awful of a pendantic habit now.

Most banks will offer virtual cards. You can use those instead of your actual card number, and if they get stolen you just cancel that virtual card, but your account is untouched.

i use privacy.com with a virtual card with a vendor lock and max limit. it also helps remind me when I’m spending too much there …

thank fuck

I only use those for short term and set them to expire after a month or however long I need them for on that site. Great way to make sure I don't auto renew anything and if it gets stolen it's already expired. As long as it's a credit card even if there is fraud they pay you back instantly. Never ever store a debit card anywhere.

That's nice, but their refusal to support linking to credit cards made me abandon using their cards.

People need to stop acting like it's some scary thing to know. https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend People open it, see thousands of dollars spent and act like it's some huge expenditure and waste and close it without thinking things through. They forget that their account is years old and when you do some simple division it comes out to $30 a month or something.

It's a credit card, you can dispute charges and will likely get a refund. I've done it a few times for different reasons.

When I calculate the "time of fun per euro spent" I'm always shocked how cheap videogames are. Even something like the new Doom, which is 70 euros for 16 hours of play comes down to €4.40 per hour.

I’ve had my account since _Portal_ was released, so that’s around 20 years ago? Frankly I’d be shocked if I’ve spent even $1k and over 20 years? That doesn’t sound too bad. Almost everything I’ve bought has been on sale, or fairly inexpensive to begin with.

There is also the cost of power and computer hardware to factor in, which probably raises the barrier to entry, but you're right. Once you have all the equipment or have it anyway for other purposes, it's very cheap.

I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99, played 537 hours. That's $0.001 or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 an hour. Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment. My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn't account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.

Just accidentally memorize it from having to manually pay a bunch of bills online in a short span!

Yeah, but that's mostly because it's lumpsum. Over time, it's not much at all.

So far it either sounds like they are replaying the message, or it's just a (partial) list of numbers that used steam. Might be good for targeting, but that is about it. They would have to know the associated account to do any intercept attacks.

I would really like to auth my steam account with a normal TOTP app. I know you can extract the TOTP from Steam authenticator but there's risk involved with it.

One could probably also factor in hardware costs. But over years it may not be as bad as suspected like you're expressing.

For context, my account is over 15 years old, it has over $6k spent, and almost all of that is in the last decade. And it still comes out to under $50 a month, with thousands of hours played across a bunch of games. For comparison, I know people who have spent much more on their hobbies with cars, bicycles and home theater equipment.

So have I, but weigh that against the hassle of needing to call and be on hold and so on. Let alone the additional burden of knowing I have to stay on top of checking my statements for fraudulent charges I’d rather avoid all that by never letting it grow to be a problem